Giulia Galli is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and the recipient of numerous awards in computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and nanoscience.